Subway advertise for “sandwich artist” — paid just £2.60 an hour

The sandwich chain Subway have been caught outlooking for staff at just £2.60 per hour. This would be legal for an apprenticeship — but the role in the West Midlands advertised as being “permanent”.

The position, advertised by Job Centre Plus as an, errrm, “sandwich artist” is set out as a level two apprenticeship, meaning a lower minimum wage applies. Under the law, a level two apprentice must spend at least 30% of their time training — but no training details are specified in the advertisement.

jimmy coull-kiddsays:

If they are a ‘sandwich artist’ are they going to send them to art school ? I hear St Martin’s college do a great course in bread cutting. Now we will sing the subway national anthem ‘everybodys doin it doin it doinit, picking their nose and chewin it chewin it chewin it’

karensays:

BBC’s Panorama found out that most apprenticeship schemes are actually a con.

They were either a way round minimum wage laws, or they were used as a money generating scam by the ‘training’ companies running them, some apprentices had as little as 6 weeks labouring before they were handed full qualifications, and the ‘training’ providers were handed over £7000 per person by the government.

But it massages the unemployment figures and circumvents minimum wage laws, so the government are more than happy to waste tax payers money on dodgy schemes.